Located off the Kennedy Highway on the corner of Syd Beck Road in Mareeba in northern Queensland. The museum entrance sign reads "The Beck Museum - War Museum" with a Matilda tank. The Beck Museum (Beck Collection) is the private collection of owner and founder, Syd Beck (also spelled Sid). It includes military vehicles, aircraft and smaller parts. Also, a F4F Wildcat built as a prop for the Hollywood movie The Thin Red Line (1998) for sequences filmed in Queensland. The museum was maintained by Syd Beck and his wife Barbara Beck. Syd Beck passed away in 2007 and his wife and son continue the museum.